Crises of food production, poverty and deepening inequality are common problems around the world and constitute the distinctive features of the global social landscape including the poorer regions. In the poorer regions ...

In some parts of the African continent, colonialist left a long time ago but the legacy they left
exist to this day. In one way or the other they ensured that their legacy lives on even beyond
independence of the African ...

Corruption as a social malaise is not only multifaceted but variety of definitions tendered to describe this phenomenon tends to ascribe a relativist stance to it. In the sense that corruption is an outcome of a system and ...

Many in Lesotho had hoped that the 1993 elections would restore democratic rule and establish the
political stability that had eluded the country since independence. The post-1993 transition to
democratic rule created ...

The government of Uganda, on realizing that community conflicts could not be handled
entirely by the centre, enacted a Local Councils Act, whose operationalization began on
8th June, 2006. The Act established the Local ...

This dissertation investigates the relationship between religion and the state in Enlightenment Europe as articulated by John Locke, Benedict de Spinoza and Jean Jacques Rousseau. I conduct the study focusing mainly on the ...

The phrase a 'culture of silence' is attributed to Jerry Rawlings in the late 1980s, at a time when he was military head of state in Ghana. The irony is that he appeared to be complaining about the 'culture of silence' ...

Governments around the world have come to the realisation that in order to respond effectively to the challenges facing their societies there is a need for coordinated effort. South Africa has not been an exception to this ...

Since its independence on July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan, with the assistance of
various internal and external stakeholders, has been working towards viable and
constructive political and socio-economic change ...

his project adopts a coherent framework developed to enable assessment of the performance of the press in upholding democracy. The framework was developed by Pippa Norris for a developed world context, but proved by this ...

The role of the international community in internal crises of sovereign states has been a subject of great debate in international relations studies. The legality and morality (from a United Nations Charter and customary ...

This study focuses on the premise that national interests of governments are the primary
motivating factors that inform decisions on military interventions. Military strategy remains a
principal tool in the attainment, ...

Contemporary African states make up a substantial number of states that are regarded to be failing. Somalia is moreover considered as the epitome of a failed state; it has been regarded as a collapsed state since 1991. In ...

Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa one of the challenges that has remained elusive to policy-makers has been the issue of how to redistribute the same democratic advances made at national level to more ordinary ...

Since the colonial period, Zimbabwe has been a territory characterised by contestation. In the
2000s, Zimbabwe entered a period of severe socio-economic conditions; this period was also
marred with several cases of human ...

Since 2008 the African National Congress has been making preparations to legalise
Shale Gas Mining in South Africa. Shale Gas Mining and its single process of
unconventional oil/gas extraction called fracking, has sparked ...

This study is an investigation of the role of the Nigerian state in African decolonization politics in the United Nations (UN) during the period 1960 to 1994 and its implications for Nigeria’s contemporary political ...

Attaining political independence in Zimbabwe since 1980 has not translated to a peaceful
country. There has been increased militarization of the state and state institutions resulting in
endemic political violence and ...

Contemporary democracies are faced with the mounting challenge of non-participation of citizens in the politics of the state. In most cases the reasons for non-participation primarily stem from the state’s incapacity to ...